Quotes by Publisher

"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."

Jon Wynne-Tyson, British Publisher

Banks, Facts, Memory

"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."

Lila Acheson Wallace, American Publisher

Pleasure,

"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."

Lila Acheson Wallace, American Publisher

Man, Painting

"I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea."

Lila Acheson Wallace, American Publisher

Idea, Right

"Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

War, Canada, Today, Weapons

"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Now, Turkey, Washington

"The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Nation, Nations

1

"Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Time, Negative, Obvious, Waste

"News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Conflict, Day, News, Problems

"Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Agreement, Desire, Nations, Objectives

"For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Habit, Months, New year

"Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

Man,

"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."

Arthur H. Sulzberger, American Publisher

American, Help, Job, Troops

"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

People, Linux, Pressure, Will

1

"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Land,

"I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Time,

"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Work, Empowerment, End, Key

1

"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Collaboration, Content, Network, Possibilities

"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Books,

"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Invention, Sense, World

1

"There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Business, Content, Options

"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Content, Job

"We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

May, Software, World

2

"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Technology, Job, Want

4

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

Business, Change, Company, Succeed

1

"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

Richard Neville, British Publisher

Life, Sense, Worth

"I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand."

John Murray, American Publisher

Development, Growth

"Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards."

John Murray, American Publisher

Development, Will

"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."

John Murray, American Publisher

People, Courage, Hope, Hell

1

"It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race."

John Murray, American Publisher

People, Party, Race, Reform

"So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress."

John Murray, American Publisher

Work, People, Congress, Living

"Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace."

John Murray, American Publisher

Money, College, Disgrace, Job

"They see themselves as athletes and only athletes."

John Murray, American Publisher

Athletes,

"Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope."

John Murray, American Publisher

Education, People, Hope

"All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen."

John Murray, American Publisher

Money, Congress, Elections

"The pain of retirement means loss."

John Murray, American Publisher

Loss, Pain, Retirement

"If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'"

Bob Guccione, American Publisher

Bed, Man, Question, Woman

"News is the first rough draft of history."

Philip L. Graham, American Publisher

History, Draft, First, News

"Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men."

Wilford O. Cross, American Publisher

Men, Nature, God, Inspiration

"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."

Wilford O. Cross, American Publisher

Conviction, Old

"The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world."

Wilford O. Cross, American Publisher

Man, Mind, Reason, World

"A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage."

Cass Canfield, American Publisher

End, Interest

"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell."

Cass Canfield, American Publisher

People, Doctors, Nurses

"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."

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"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."

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"A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it."

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"I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea."

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"Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry."

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"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples."

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"The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so."

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"Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense."

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"News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are."

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"Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives."

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"For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit."

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"Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows."

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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."

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"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."

1

"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there."

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"I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is."

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"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."

1

"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."

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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."

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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."

1

"There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them."

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"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."

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"We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software."

2

"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."

4

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."

1

"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

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"I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand."

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"Development in this county is always going to be an issue. Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards."

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"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."

1

"It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race."

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"So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress."

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"Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace."

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"They see themselves as athletes and only athletes."

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"Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope."

​

"All elections revolve around and are often resolved by who raises the most money. That's unfair. I'd like to see that process changed, but it seems once you win and get to Congress, that doesn't happen."

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"The pain of retirement means loss."

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"If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'"

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"News is the first rough draft of history."

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"Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men."

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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."